In Regina Lee’s article, “Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of Consciousness,” the author examines an interpretive approach in understanding the diasporic community. She focuses on three main types of psychological states of those transnational groups: idealization of the homeland, boutique multicultural manifestation, and transnational/transformational identity politics. The first type of consciousness, the idealization of the homeland, she argues that those living in these communities will always be in a marginalized state because they are separated physically from their homeland, yet being socially excluded from the host country. The second consciousness refers to the rising of multicultural cities. Here, the author argues that race and ethnicity become modes of identification. The last type of consciousness focuses on the “hyphen” that locates the diasporic subject as existing between two cultures. Lee asserts that people who live in these diasporic communities begin to exist in a separate but real community in of itself, my question is, how do the international relations between the home and host countries affect how these diasporic communities live?
Lee, Regina. (2004). Theorizing Diaspora: Three Types of Consciousness. Hong Kong University Press.
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